Professor Bruce Berndt, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) gave two talks for 
the Department of Mathematics on the work of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. 
The first, on Monday, October 5, was a colloquium titled "The Problems Ramanujan submitted  
to the Journal of  the Indian Mathematical Society".  The second, on Tuesday, October 6, 
was a general interest talk on Ramanujan's life and work entitled "Ramanujan Notebook's". 
        Both talks took place from 3:40 to 4:30 in Room PSF 101. 
        Ramanujan was a remarkable mathematician, largely self taught, who influenced mathematics 
profoundly by his intuitive discoveries and the large number of unsolved problems he left behind. 
His intriguing and tragic life story has been the subject of books including The Man Who Knew  
Infinity by Robert Kanigal (1991). 
        Professor Berndt is an expert in number theory and analysis who has devoted many years 
to researching problems from Ramanujan's notebooks.  He has published volumes containing 
the results of this work, and has edited Ramanujan's notebooks and letters. 
        Find out more about Berndt's talks